"Don White" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"jps" wrote in message
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Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.



Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of retirement
adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were
working 60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you
realize you have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former
associates to make sure everything at the company is ok. As time goes on
and you realize the company is surviving fine without you, another sense
of guilt starts to creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running your
business has been turned down considerably. You start to realize that
there's more to life than being consumed with a business that frankly was
turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start to become out of
date with respect to current technology and you really don't care. Your
hair, if you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly squashed
when you start thinking of all the start-up issues involved. You start
exploring and doing things that you never had time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Our big project last week was introducing our Springer Spaniel to the
threadmill.
Now when the weather is too bad to drive to the park... he will still get
his exercise. He's a bit reluctant, but is catching on pretty good.


My son and d-i-l's dog "Brandy" is one of Sam Adams' sisters. She loves
the treadmill.
I tried to introduce Sam to ours. He just sat there with a stupid look on
his face, like,
"are you ****ting me?"

Eisboch

Don White wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"jps" wrote in message
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Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.


Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of retirement
adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were
working 60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you
realize you have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former
associates to make sure everything at the company is ok. As time goes on
and you realize the company is surviving fine without you, another sense
of guilt starts to creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running your
business has been turned down considerably. You start to realize that
there's more to life than being consumed with a business that frankly was
turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start to become out of date
with respect to current technology and you really don't care. Your hair,
if you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly squashed
when you start thinking of all the start-up issues involved. You start
exploring and doing things that you never had time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Our big project last week was introducing our Springer Spaniel to the
threadmill.
Now when the weather is too bad to drive to the park... he will still get
his exercise. He's a bit reluctant, but is catching on pretty good.



What's a "threadmill"? Are you using you dog to make textiles?

jps wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:12:28 -0500, hk wrote:

Well, they both work very well, and as far as I am concerned, it is a
half dozen of one and six of the other.

The Apple Mac OS is a little more to my liking, now that I am sort of
used to it, but there are still areas where I think the Apple system is
just too cute. Also, there is some software, not much of it, that is
important to me and only runs on a PC and may not like running under an
emulator.

So, after I got my Mac, I installed in turn the two major PC emulator
suites that run on a Mac as virtual machines. Both work OK, and I tended
to like VMware Fusion a bit better. But while in emulator mode, there
were still one or two programs that simply would not work on an emulated
PC.

Last week, a buddy who runs the same software suggested I dump the
emulators and run Apple's Boot Camp. I did. Now, I boot up my Mac in
either Apple Mac OS or MS Vista, and while in VISTA everything I need to
work works just fine. Eureka, as Sarah Palin's great-great grandfather,
Thomas Edison, used to exclaim.

There's no real downside to Boot Camp that I have noticed so far. I know
there are some PC few apps that may cause it trouble, but I am not
running any. All the hardware works fine. And to reboot in Vista takes
no longer than starting up one of the emulators and then XP or VISTA.
Shutting down VISTA in Boot Camp is faster than shutting down the emulators.

VISTA runs like greased lightning in Boot Camp. Got a 5.+ in the built
in ratings.

So, if you are thinking of moving to a Mac and have PC software you
need, the chances are it will run ok in Windows under Boot Camp. The
Apple site has knowledge base articles on what software is troublesome.

Sometime this month, my new Mac desktop will be up and running and my
last PC desktop will be running server software.

I have an older 20" G5 the kids use so can't use Boot Camp. Wish I
could. Nothing but PCs in the rest of the house.

My first computer was a "Fat" Mac in 1984, one floppy drive, no HD.
Several months later I upgraded to the external floppy drive. It's
incredible what's happened in 25 years.

A friend recently showed me the Mac OS running on his pc via Ubuntu.
Very cool.

You sure it was the Mac OS and not a tricked up Linux "face"?

I've got a half dozen apps that run well on PCs but so far as I can tell
have no real Mac alternatives. So, that's why I installed a fresh
version of VISTA on my Mac. When I am running VISTA under Boot Camp, it
is (or seems as it is) exactly like running VISTA alone. There are a
couple of keyboard combos that are different, but everything else is
nominal, so far.

hk wrote:
jps wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:12:28 -0500, hk wrote:

Well, they both work very well, and as far as I am concerned, it is a
half dozen of one and six of the other.


I really can't figure out why someone would pay close to double the cost
for a MAC laptop, if it was half dozen of one, or six of the other.

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

I have read that some people state it actually runs faster than XP.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:36:38 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

Yeah, every new Windows product is the best ever. I don't know how I've
lived without it, or any Windows product for that matter. ;-)

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:36:38 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

Yeah, every new Windows product is the best ever. I don't know how I've
lived without it, or any Windows product for that matter. ;-)


I like doing business with Apple. If I have a serious question I cannot
get answered easily on line, I just contact my Apple store and either
get help over the phone directly or pop in the store when I am up at the
mall. With guys who speak English.

I also like the Apple packaging for new machines. Very very few options,
or choices to make, except for the big Mac Pro, because the computers
are complete as they come in the box. All I did with my laptop is add
two gigs of Ram, and that took about five minutes.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:13:45 -0600, thunder wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:36:38 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

Yeah, every new Windows product is the best ever. I don't know how I've
lived without it, or any Windows product for that matter. ;-)

I know how you've lived without it. The one you use is patched before you
know that it could have broke. That's the way mine works.

Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
hk wrote:
jps wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:12:28 -0500, hk wrote:

Well, they both work very well, and as far as I am concerned, it is
a half dozen of one and six of the other.


I really can't figure out why someone would pay close to double the cost
for a MAC laptop, if it was half dozen of one, or six of the other.

From the initial reports of Windows 7, it looks like Windows 7 will be
everything Microsoft was hoping for in Vista.

I have read that some people state it actually runs faster than XP.

Bought my daughter a Dell Inspiron 1525 with a Dual Core 2GHz CPU 3GB
RAM 160GB HD laptop for $459 just before Christmas. It has Vista Home
Premium runs well.